by Mario Mergola | Oct 8, 2025
It seems like I have walked away from each week of this season with the same feeling. That is, it’s been fine overall, but it hasn’t established a direction or trend. There are some teams that are still struggling to do the same, but we normally have an...
by Mario Mergola | Oct 1, 2025
You’ll see the same comment later in this article, but I cannot believe we are already through the first-quarter of the regular season. This is normally the time when we start to watch teams find their identities and play their preferred types of games....
by Mario Mergola | Sep 24, 2025
It wasn’t the full recovery I would have liked to see, but it was nice to have the ‘traps’ work where they should have last week. This, after arguably the most disappointing second week of a season I can remember. As I wrote in my previous column,...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 17, 2025
I knew it. I wrote it in last week’s introduction, but this year’s infamous Week 2 just felt different than the rest. It was less about overreaction — the key to a good Week 2 set of picks — and more about… close losses. That’s...
by Mario Mergola | Sep 10, 2025
I never shy away from how much I love the second week of every National Football League season. It’s the time when I will write the word “overreaction” a ridiculous amount of times and basically use that one approach to project every outcome. The...
